2003

Having pondered many things I might like to say at this time, I am moved
to dwell on but one item, that of putting into practice that which we
have learnt from John. I assume that the great majority of people
reading this email have also read at least one of John's books and have
had some degree of experience with
Body Electronics
and can make use of
the following.

We will fondly recall one of John's many one-liners, etched into our
minds through what he called ponderous repetition, "Faith without works
is dead." A corollary to this is, "By their fruits shall ye know them."
John also petitioned us to, "be anxiously engaged in a good work of our
own free will and choice". To that end, we each set out with our "List"
to conquer the morass of karma and incomplete action we have been
accruing for aeons of time.

There is often a tendency for us to search out the works that require
doing, assuming that there is some inherent value to those works. Then
at the end of the day we take stock of our progress and items get
crossed off the List or remain for another day. The "works" and the
"fruits" appear to carry great importance since we are after all going
to be judged by them it would seem.

However, it is my understanding that we would do well to relegate those
works and fruits into subservience to our responsible attitude towards
those works and fruits. The point is fine; no matter what degree of
importance we may have placed upon any given item on our List (from
sewing on the missing button through to achieving world peace), we must
clearly understand that "importance" is a relative measure born out of
judgement.

To put this another way, there is no item we can place on our List that
is truly more important than the attitude with which we manifest or do
not manifest that item. There are items which we may complete but which
benefit no-one, although we may temporarily believe these to have some
seeming benefit. There are also items that we will never complete or
manifest until we are capable of manifesting them for the right reason.
The items that we do complete or manifest and which benefit ourselves
and others the most on an inner level may have little seeming importance
on an outer level.

There is no doubt that many people can agree on certain items as being
"important", but then again many people also share the same crystals and
beliefs. We call this cultural, racial or societal programming, wherein
people agree on importance because they can see things no other way.
Take world peace, for example. Is this really important? What does it
mean to be important anyway? Is world peace more important than
individual inner peace? Some would say yes and others no. Some would
perceive world peace difficult to achieve without a lot of people first
having inner peace. So which is more important? I'm sure that most
people have an opinion because most people have strong beliefs in this
area.

Is a watermelon more important than a grape and if so for what reason?
Is it size or weight or colour or texture or taste or for some other
reason? And will two people agree on that measure of importance? In
point of fact, a watermelon is simply what it is, just as a grape is
simply what it is. Indeed we may be known by our fruit, but is a good
tree one that produces lots of fruit or one that produces good-tasting
fruit?

Can peace be enforced? Enforced peace must result from restriction of
personal freedoms, one of which freedoms is to not be at peace. This
approach to our List (enforcement) reveals our desire to manipulate the
outer world, to attempt to compel the outer manifestation to be shaped
according to the power of our will. While this can indeed be done, it is
not the reason we were given
The List.

Energy can definitely be manipulated. Energy is here to be manipulated;
energy has no other purpose to fulfil. You can imagine Superman grabbing
an iron girder and bending it by the force of his superhuman strength.
This is a manipulation of matter using physical energies. Others
manipulate matter using the superhuman strength of their mind, for
example, the spoon-bending of Uri Geller. There is no doubt that matter
and energy can be manipulated; Superman and Uri Geller therefore have a
lot in common. When we approach our List, are we attempting to mould the
universe to our will or do we recognise that the universe is already
moulded to our will?

Contrary to what you may believe, the purpose of our List is not to help
us get things done. This is certainly the purpose of "checklists",
"to-do lists", "goal lists", etc as are used in the business world and
by motivational experts. Our List will help us get things done, as it
happens, but incidentally to a much higher purpose that we must
understand if we are to receive the blessings we require for our
progress.

To reveal this purpose, first we must understand that this is a universe
of duality, meaning that matter and energy exist only because of will
and desire. In other words, everything is where it is because someone
put it there; there are no mistakes or accidents, consciousness has been
involved in every action.

Please consider this fully until you can at least also see that the
existence of matter in one place and in one form also necessarily means
that the same matter must exist in all places and in all forms, if one's
mind can but perceive it. The straight iron girder that Superman must
bend by the force of his muscles is already bent before he lays hands on
it, if he could but see it so. Superman was a great inspiration to me as
a child, but I now see that I do not have to be Superman because it is
not great physical or mental exertion that is required to do the job,
for it is simply a matter of changing perceptions.

This is where our List comes into play, because we have submerged our
ability to change our perception at will beneath the morass of
incomplete acts and karma we carry. We have effectively and quite
comprehensively convinced ourselves that things are indeed the way we
see them such that our judgement corresponds with our physical reality.
In fact, we believe our judgement depends on outer reality, when the
truth is that the outer reality depends on our judgement. But while we
erroneously believe in the outer determining our judgement we are like a
cat chasing its tail.

The purpose of constructive outer action (good works), as guided by our
List, is not merely for the sake of certain or copious constructive
actions coming into being. The purpose of constructive outer action is
to excavate our buried will so that we might learn to become responsible
creators. When we make that grade then we become nothing but a wonderful
blessing to all life, regardless of our actions.

This is what I mean when I talk about putting into practice that which
we have learnt from John. We must unshackle ourselves from the limiting
belief that the outer world dictates the necessary actions. Our inner
world, our inner essence, our individual intelligence dictates action
through the application of will and desire. In other words, things
happen because one chooses for them to happen or they don't happen
because one chooses for something else to happen. One is free from
judgements of importance at this level.

What we must put into practice is our understanding that the outer
manifestation shapes itself around our consciousness. Rather than only
give this concept lip service, "Yes, I understand that," we must apply
it until we really do understand it and can apply it unerringly.

We clearly understand that when we see a burning candle in a mirror the
way to blow it out is not to blow on the mirror or the reflection, but
to go to the candle itself and act there. There is no difference in our
life other than that we typically are so fixated on the reflection (the
outer manifestation) that we cannot see the mirror itself (our mind or
consciousness), nor the will and desire (in the inner essence) that is
being reflected by it. It would seem that many of us are living our
lives trapped inside the time and space-fixated mirror instead of being
inside our inner essence, which has no time-space boundaries. In the
mirror, supermen are required to bring about changes and the changes are
mere manipulations; outside the mirror change is effortless and merely a
matter of perception.

Please feel free to discuss this further with me if at least the concept
does not make sense to you. The understanding of it is an unfolding and
ongoing process as we strip away the obscurations we have previously
placed in our field of vision. I do not mean to suggest the existence of
an unending array of energies to be dealt with, for in reality I believe
that we may each be transformed in the twinkling of an eye once we have
reached a certain level of understanding.

Please consider all of the above in terms of John's great revelation
that, "Until man can experience on the mental level that which exists on
the physical level, he will be bound to the physical." May I reword it
slightly to help put it into perspective, "Until we can perceive that
which exists in the mirror as only existing there because it first
exists in our mind, we will be bound to experiencing what we perceive in
the mirror."

Please spare a thought today for John's contribution to our lives and
understanding and endeavour to make use of what we have been given.

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